No. 9/12 Cardinals Set for Purdue Invitational

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The No. 9/12 University of Louisville men's and women's swim team travels to West Lafayette, Ind. on Nov. 21-23 for the Purdue Invitational. The Cardinal divers will head to Greensboro, N.C. to attend the ACC Diving Invitational.

Prelims will start each morning at 9 a.m. with finals beginning at 6 p.m. The Cardinals will compete against Purdue, Grand Canyon, McKendree, Navy, Indiana State, Illinois State, Florida International, and ACC rival Pittsburgh.

About Louisville
Last time out, Grace Oglesby won both butterfly events as the Cardinals fell to No. 4/18 Indiana and No. 2/8 Texas in a two-day tri-meet. Sophie Cattermole set a new pool record in the 1650 freestyle with the fastest time in the nation so far this season and Daniel Pinto broke the program record on the 3-meter board in the Cardinals' sweep of No. 18/23 Notre Dame on Nov. 1. Louisville had another top-25 matchup on Oct. 24, winning 15 events despite falling to No. 10/3 Tennessee.

History was made last season for the Cardinals as they became the first ACC program in history to have both its men's and women's teams finish among the top-five in the team standings at the NCAA Championships in the same year. The women's team recorded their highest finish in program history with a fourth-place showing at NCAAs while the men's team finished a program-high fifth place. The Cardinal men were the team runners-up at the ACC Championships and the women secured third place.

Scouting the Competition
Trent Pellini won a pair of events against Notre Dame and Nick McDowell has been the Boilermakers' top distance performer. Jing En Phee and Sylvia Kobylak lead a strong Purdue women's breaststroke group and each picked up individual victories against the Lady Vols and Fighting Irish.

Freshman Kelsey Andrusak won four events in Grand Canyon's recent tri-meet en route to being named the Western Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Week. Samuel McKenzie leads the Lopes after placing first in a trio of events in their sweep over Seattle.

The McKendree men, who rank third in Division II, started their season off with a big win against No. 2 Indianapolis while the No. 21 Bearcat women recently finished third at the Drury Invitational. Matija Pucarevic and Fabio Dalu have each racked up Great Lakes Valley Conference honors this season.

The Navy men begin their season at 8-2, suffering losses to No. 5 Michigan and No. 23 Auburn while the women are off to an impressive 9-1 start after falling to the 18th-ranked Wolverines. Last season, the Midshipmen captured their 16th-straight Patriot League title while the women won their 18th championship crown in program history.

Led by seniors Kendall Hansen and Alex Mamborg, Indiana State has prevailed in their last four dual meets. The Sycamores currently sit at 3-1 in Missouri Valley Conference action and won all 16 events in back-to-back meets against Little Rock and Xavier.

Illinois State started the year off with a convincing win over Butler where four swimmers were double-event winners. Jensen Keck and Kierston Farley-Sepe paced the Redbirds with a combined five individual wins despite suffering a loss to MVC foe Indiana State.

Five-time defending Conference USA champions Florida International are off to a 4-3 start on the year, recently picking up big wins over Illinois and Miami. Senior Julia Miranda and rookie Lamija Medosevic have both been awarded C-USA Swimmer of the Week honors.

Pitt took the top spot in 25 events during a quad-meet with Villanova, Duquesne, and Youngstown State and five Panthers were double-event winners in their sweep of Michigan State. Junior Blaise Vera, who was the 100 free runner-up at ACCs last season, has been tabbed the ACC Swimmer of the Week twice this year.

Order of Events
Thursday:

200 freestyle relay
500 freestyle
200 individual medley
50 freestyle
400 medley relay

Friday:

200 medley relay
400 individual medley
100 butterfly
200 freestyle
100 breaststroke
100 backstroke
800 freestyle relay

Saturday:

1650 freestyle
200 backstroke
100 freestyle
200 breaststroke
200 butterfly
400 freestyle relay

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International Connections…
There will be as many as 40 countries represented at the meet and participants in the following international events:
• 2016 Olympic Games
• 2019 FINA World Championships
• 2019 Pan Am Games
• 2019 World University Games

POTENTIALLY 40 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT PURDUE INVITE
Australia Bahamas Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England France	Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Japan Kenya Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Namibia Netherlands New Caledonia	New Zealand Peru Poland Russia Rwanda Serbia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine United States of America

Navy Assignments Announced at the Pool on Thursday
Navy's seniors learn their service assignments Thursday. We will be recognizing Navy's seniors at the pool after the Thursday prelims. They'll learn their assignments in real time as Chris Bailey from Navy's staff reads them off on the pool PA.

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Players Mentioned

Sophie Cattermole

Grace Oglesby

Daniel Pinto

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